When does iTunes embed artwork?
The idea was to rip lossless on one machine then transfer over network to second Mac using Home Sharing.
On one album it downloaded the artwork but got it wrong for a few tracks with different artwork.
I transferred across to second machine, and this time different tracks had the wrong artwork, so presumably it was fetching from internet each time and had not embedded the artwork initially on machine 1.
Another album had the wrong artwork entirely so I manually changed it with Get Info, and I believe this embeds the artwork in the file (so long as the files aren't referenced and are actually in the itunes music folder?) - copying this via Home Sharing and the manually added artwork was retained and presumably embedded.
Seems daft that itunes doesn't have a preference to always embed artwork.
So, anyone have any clear guide as to when artwork is or isn't embedded? Which file types (some won't support artwork/metadata) ?
I'm sure someone has a logical explanation of all this !
Cheers.
Mac OS X (10.6.6)